Earlier this month, Student Minds launched their 'Look After Your Mate' campaign to encourage and support students to look out for their friends. Their interactive 'Look After Your Mate' guide includes practical tips and student stories, covering everything from starting a conversation to navigating the student journey. Students and staff can get involved in the campaign both on campus and online - take a look at the campaigns toolkit for tips, event ideas, publicity materials and lots more!

The Trust, which support Student Minds, Nightline and Students Against Depression, is raising awareness of all the issues around anxiety, depression and the importance of good mental health and funds to support its work.

If you would like to join the team, although entires are now closed, the Trust has 30 extra 'paper entries', so please email Hamish Elvidge and we can ensure that you are on the starting line! Find out more on the Fleet Half Page of the Trust website.

Student Minds will be hosting their fourth annual conference on 7th & 8th March 2014 at St John's College, Oxford. The conference will be a fantastic opportunity to explore some of the key challenges facing student mental health today and will include sessions on how to translate this knowledge into practice, sharing practical ideas for successful mental health campaigning. As well as leading researchers and clinicians, speakers will include young adults who are keen to share their personal reflections on managing mental health problems at university.

University Mental Health and Wellbeing Day is an annual event to focus efforts aimed at promoting the mental health of people who live and work in Higher Education settings. The initiative was started by UMHAN (University Mental Health Advisers Network) in 2012 and is supported by members of the Alliance for Student-Led Wellbeing. Get involved to help make the day bigger and better in 2014!

In the information pack below we have collated suggestions for how you can get involved, from running a social contact event or mindapples tree to blogging and joining the national conversation on Twitter…